CHristmas wordplay

December 17, 2008 2:37 PM

My girlfriend has a set of blocks that spell out, "Merry Christmas". They are sitting on a table in the lving room. Today I decided to re-arrange them.

I made it my goal to use all of the letters. The one I came up with reads, " Im Smart Cherrys". Can anyone think of any others?

posted by haikuku to writing & language (25 comments total)

If you're not above cheating, The Internet Anagram Server could be helpful.
posted by Nomiconic at 2:41 PM on December 17, 2008 [1 favorite]

link
posted by devbrain at 2:41 PM on December 17, 2008

Anagram Maker
posted by coevals at 2:41 PM on December 17, 2008

wordsmith.com has an anagram maker... it also has an advanced section to fine tune the results... I would suggest using that.

Here is the link to the anagrams for Merry Christmas : Here!
posted by Brettus at 2:41 PM on December 17, 2008

Go Here.
posted by mai at 2:42 PM on December 17, 2008

misty charms err
posted by gyusan at 2:43 PM on December 17, 2008

There is some humor value in retaining "Christ" and simply rearranging "Merry" and "mas." For example:

CHRIST REAMS MY

The Anagram Server does not have the word "Christ" in its dictionary, so it will never come up with that if you just give it "Merry Christmas."
posted by kindall at 2:48 PM on December 17, 2008 [2 favorites]

I like:

Scram Merry Sh*t
posted by plasticbugs at 2:49 PM on December 17, 2008 [3 favorites]

Try Ass Rim Merch
Merry Art Schism
posted by bunnytricks at 2:50 PM on December 17, 2008 [1 favorite]

Re: Smarmy Christ
posted by sanko at 2:54 PM on December 17, 2008

er, scratch that...
posted by sanko at 2:54 PM on December 17, 2008

What I think are some of the better ones from the anagram site:
Its myrrh creams
March misers try
Racism Errs Myth
Cram Shyster Rim
Car Rhymes Trims
Scars Emit Myrrh
Hammers Cry Stir
My Rich Armrests
posted by rmless at 3:03 PM on December 17, 2008

Metric ass myrrh.
posted by box at 3:06 PM on December 17, 2008 [13 favorites]

It Screams Myrrh!
posted by PercussivePaul at 3:11 PM on December 17, 2008 [10 favorites]

Smarmy retch, sir?
posted by bjork24 at 3:13 PM on December 17, 2008

We used to do this with a massively depleted magnetic alphabet (I think there were 9 or 10 letters left), and it was always fun to find unexpected words by turning some letters upside-down or on their sides. The slight wrong-looking-ness just adds to the fun.

If you can do this with the blocks, then switching the Ms into Ws, for example, gives:
Satyr Crews Whir
Awry Wretch Sirs
We Shirr Wry Cats
and more.

If the H is a capital letter, and can be turned sideways to make an I, you get:
Merry Scimitars
Stir Smarmy Rice
etc
posted by severalbees at 3:21 PM on December 17, 2008

I think you should come up with a different anagram for each day....
posted by availablelight at 3:46 PM on December 17, 2008

My mom had porcelain letters that spell out "NOEL" and it was the highlight of my year to piss her off all throughout the holiday season by rearranging them to spell "LEON". Over. And over. And over.

May this bring you as much joy.
posted by padraigin at 4:31 PM on December 17, 2008 [7 favorites]

From the links above, but:

Martyr Smirches

is certainly…interesting, given the origins of the day and whatnot.
posted by paisley henosis at 5:03 PM on December 17, 2008

I like this one too:
Scram Merry Shit
posted by Maias at 5:35 PM on December 17, 2008 [4 favorites]

My crasser mirth
posted by the_bone at 7:29 PM on December 17, 2008 [1 favorite]

You could also think outside the box a bit: if the letters are all caps, you can use an upside-down M as W, or a sideways M as E or vice versa. Sideways H = I and vice versa. I'll leave it to others to determine whether this generates any other interesting possibilities.

(Similar to padraigin, my mom has fridge magnets that spell out NOEL, plus six holly leaves. I'm fond of making a giant "A" out of five of the leaves and using it to spell ALONE.)
posted by Chuck Carroll at 7:40 PM on December 17, 2008 [1 favorite]

Also sideways C = U.
posted by Chuck Carroll at 7:41 PM on December 17, 2008

Of the ones submitted, For an innocent gag I'd go with "it screams myrrh"
posted by planetkyoto at 9:15 PM on December 17, 2008

'Tis yer chasm, Mr.!
posted by Iridic at 9:20 AM on December 18, 2008